> People build wild shit in Excel that only they can understand.
If these people are the customer, then a wild shit xlsx file is perhaps one of the better possible scenarios for requirements gathering.
If these people are the customer, then a wild shit xlsx file is perhaps one of the better possible scenarios for requirements gathering.
The problem is they make significant concessions in their design to fit the tabular model of spreadsheets. It can be really warping, not only to GUI but also the underlying data model. Then you show them what a relational data model is capable of, and (hopefully) blow their mind.